I was bitten by the baking bug over the weekend and pumped out two batches of cookies. The first was a soft macadamia and peanut butter cookie, based on this choc chip cookie recipe. The awesome thing about that choc chip cookie recipe is that it’s just a base, and you can add any mix-in you want! Mac & pb is the hubby’s favourite, so it’s also a good thing I baked another set of cookies because he legit ate ALL the mac & pb cookies in 24 hours, seriously.
Sam told me he wanted to make a banana cake today. I umm’d and ahh’d about whether we should make the healthy version or the other version. Pause. Ok who am I kidding? I did not umm and ahh, I didn’t even flinch as I got out an entire 250 gram block of butter and willed it to soften so I could make my mum’s most awesome banana cake recipe ever.
WARNING (or, it is a PSA?): This recipe contains condensed milk.
It’s winter now in the southern hemisphere. The days are short, the darkness is long, and ok, I get that our friends in the far north are probably having a chuckle because actually, we still get daylight for a solid 10 hours a day and when they hit winter, they get oh about two. But I digress. Winter is a really tough time for me. Not in the least because I’m always always freezing, but because all I want to get in my face is SWEET STUFF.
I’ve been freelance writing for a while now and one of (if not THE) tenets of writing of any kind is to pick a topic and just stay with it. Don’t go off on a tangent, don’t get distracted, just stick with one idea. Well, we all know how bad I am with that. When I started thinking about this blog post, a million ideas popped into my head and, after careful consideration, I narrowed it down to three:
I posted this photo of my spaghetti and meatballs on Instagram the other day and made everyone hungry. Hah, so humble, me. No really, so many people liked it, but I wonder if they’d still like it if they knew these were healthy baked meatballs with hidden veggies?
I suspect the mums are all like YEAHHHH and everyone else just closed this window.
Every year when summer rolls around, I throw a little party on the inside because with summer comes mango. Up the top of my list of favourite fruits (right there next to longans) mango has long been a love mine, my childhood dotted with memories of trailing after my dad at the local flea market and buying entire boxes of Bowen mangoes for $2.